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This is the book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the conscientious.
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Those who acknowledge the unseen, and observe the contact prayer (sala), and from Our provisions to them, they spend.
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Those who acknowledge what was sent down to you, and what was sent down before you, and regarding the Hereafter they are certain.
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These are the ones guided by their Lord, and these are the winners.
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As for those who do not appreciate, whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not acknowledge.
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God has sealed their hearts and their ears; and over their eyes are covers. They will incur a great retribution.
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Among the people are those who say, We acknowledge God and the Last day, but they do not acknowledge.
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They seek to deceive God and those who acknowledge, but they only deceive themselves without noticing.
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In their hearts is a disease, so God increases their disease, and they will have a painful retribution for what they have denied.
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If they are told Do not make evil in the land, they say, But we are the reformers!
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No, they are the evildoers, but they do not perceive.
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If they are told, acknowledge as the people have acknowledged, they say, Shall we acknowledge as the fools have acknowledged? No, they are the fools but they do not know.
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If they come across those who have acknowledged, they say, We acknowledge, and when they are alone with their devils they say, We are with you, we were only mocking.
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God mocks them, and leaves them prolonged in their transgression.
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These are those who have purchased straying for guidance; their trade did not profit them, nor were they guided.
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Their example is like one who lights a fire, so when it illuminates what is around him, God takes away his light and leaves him in the darkness not seeing.
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Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not revert.
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Or like a storm from the sky, in it are darkness, thunder, and lightning. They place their fingers in their ears from stunning noises out of fear of death; and God is aware of the ingrates.
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The lightning nearly snatches away their sight, whenever it lights the path, they walk in it, and when it becomes dark for them, they stand. Had God willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight. God is capable of all things.
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O people, serve your Lord who has created you and those before you that you may be conscientious.
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The One who made the land a habitat, and the sky a structure, and He sent down from the sky water with which He brought out fruit as a provision for you. So do not make any equals with God while you now know.
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If you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant, then bring a chapter like this, and call upon your witnesses other than God if you are truthful.
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If you cannot do this -- and you will not be able to do this -- then beware of the fire whose fuel is people and stones; it has been prepared for the ingrates.
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Give good news to those who acknowledge and do the reforms, that they will have gardens with rivers flowing beneath. Every time they receive of its fruit, they say, This is what we have been provisioned before, and they are given its likeness/allegories. Moreover, there they will have pure spouses, and there they will abide.
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God does not shy away from citing the example of a mosquito, or anything above it. As for those who acknowledge, they know that it is the truth from their Lord. As for the unappreciative, they say, What does God want with this example? He lets many stray by it, and He guides many, but He only lets stray the evildoers.
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The ones who break their pledge to God after making the covenant, and they sever what God had ordered to be joined. Moreover, they make corruption on earth; these are the losers.
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How can you not appreciate God when you were dead and He brought you to life? Then He makes you die, then He brings you to life, then to Him you return.
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He is the One who created for you all that is in the earth, then He attended to the universe and made it seven heavens, and He is aware of all things.
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Your Lord said to the angels, I am placing a successor on earth. They said, Would You place in it he who would corrupt it, and shed blood, while we sing Your glory, and praise You? He said, I know what you do not know.
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